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The Quickening - Are You an Innie or an Outie? 1 message

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Makta Pond <everylastcumdropugot@gmail.com>	Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:52 PM
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I don't want to confuse you out to an oblivion. I'm here when you are ready. Sorry for flood of text.. but what  shared to him also can apply to everybody as community. In your honor Sir, I issue this upon the day. What I mean of special media - this will be placed. It has no name applied here - in it's writing. AS TRUE as true as all things from here TRUTH ABSOLUTE! It's our society peace building tools elite! You are the man spoken of this day and upon the quote held in memespace.. -------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. -Paul Bryant https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/character.html -------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://community.gruwup.net/ : http://community.gruwup.net/Prejudice/ http://community.gruwup.net/Persuasive-Technology/ : @Gruwup2017 Great Reasons Us [ You There Travis, I Here Martin, And All Around ] Will Unite Peace -------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are definitely a pleasure to be open for further busting out of knuts galore. INDEED I be disqualifying choices and only those who show class, pride and/or character at "first glaze" are IN. The OUTs will ponder to wonder and waste away to it's ways. InTheMindway success over "The Quickening " bridge we will fly! February 7th Year Two Thousand and Seven plus Ten at the beckoning hour of Two Hours Afternoon and Forty Eight Over the Top Of The Hour In the place on earth where what is know by just a passing number 5280. a a a a a a "Mile High" we are already in flight yes yes yes yes yes yes -- we only go higher bye bye bye ------- #Makta Pond says to our world and declares this is the only fact of knowing social science action and motion of recombinant memetics engineering technology that we must be connecting and uniting in our worldly way to be of the inclusive not ever be abusive upon outside of yourself -- the mind and self of another ones' freedoms, expressions, progressions and show.  For the outside will be INs and the insides be drawn to the OUTs. This is now -- to the ever so ever gutter of your insolence upon humanities compassionates, To the ever so ever gutter you prove it for all the world as a whole to see and never can you remove it  --  it is shit your site -- the shitty way you are drawn and stuck upon your face and never never be be erased. It is now to hearten your love and break the chains of your fear and hate.  We cannot be any other way but united all of all allls of all we stand, or divided we must fall all fall and no one escapes being of addictus -- the fall of all falls it will be -- the fall from God's Good Grace. For we must  be upon selves to grow over so slightly a point of change to a level that we see ourselves was the childish ones we are. All at that level must we help to climb and grow over the wall. For those who don't --- its a hurting child that is silent that no one pays anymore time to see beyond the level were crying is anymore. Anyone crying in such a way to make everyone see themselves out of the edge of the cliff --- and they fake at walking over it's demise --- its a cry that is mistrustfully played against the commons of our better community and suckers are their thinking believing that they are secretively working, when they are of the OUTs and the INs are weaving the acts into historical data. It's here -- believe me -- believe us it is here the time crossing of Technorealism and it does not play favorites. Grow up and leave that level of childish "coldness and stillness of heart" down at your side of pride and walk away from it forever. Be of a level that faults show class of class that status quo thought hey are of no faults - are false --- They are left undone to be unwise to be tossed out and be said forever more bye    ---  bye bye   --- bye bye bye

Stanton Peele

Addiction in Society

Normalizing Drug Use

Drug use does not become and remain addictive more often than other involvements

Posted Apr 25, 2014

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The drug policy battle in the U.S. isn't about medical marijuana, or even legalizing marijuana. It's about normalizing drug use. Do drugs create different experiences from other involvements we are familiar with—are they more compelling, more inescapable, less controllable, more inexorable in their progression to addiction than other experiences that we encounter daily? They are not. By and large, people don't accept Bruce's, Carl's, and my idea that drug responses fall in the range of normal human experiences, or my idea of the equivalency of drug and behavioral addictions (which is now the American Psychiatric Association's official position). (Please don't answer, "You don't mean physiologically addictive." See The Meaning of Addiction.) Americans carry too much cultural baggage to allow those ideas in. Instead, we think drugs—especially narcotics, and most especially heroin, followed by cocaine, crack and meth—are "truly" addictive. So what? Maia goes on to cite statistics from the 2012 National Survey of Drug Use and Health, in which fewer than one percent of Americans have a serious marijuana problem, although 48 percent have used marijuana in their lives. Why, that's less than two percent of everyone who has ever used the drug who abuse or are addicted to the substance currently. That is so unlike dangerous drugs to which everyone rapidly becomes permanently addicted! Not exactly. Here are the lifetime use figures for heroin (2.6 percent), cocaine (18 percent), crack (5 percent), and meth (6 percent): Here are the current abusers/addicts with these drugs: heroin (0.1 percent), cocaine (0.4 percent), crack (not listed), meth (only stimulants listed = 0.2 percent). So, for heroin, that's four percent of ever users who are addicted, and for cocaine about the same as for marijuana (around 2 percent). While meth and crack can't be calculated, the figure is clearly a small minority (less than 10 percent). What are we to make of that? According to government surveys, people rarely find even the most addictive, dangerous drugs to be, well, addictive and dangerous. Please don't answer, "People don't tell the truth in government surveys." In their comprehensive follow-up of Vietnam vets addicted to heroin in Asia, Lee Robins and her colleagues found that users of heroin stateside were no more likely to consume that drug compulsively than were users of other illicit drugs. Based on this and other research, I said in The Meaning of Addiction, "heroin does not appear to differ significantly in the potential range of its use from other types of involvements, and even compulsive users cannot be distinguished from those given to other habitual involvements in the ease with which they desist or shift their patterns of use."

The myth of Addictus was about a slave who’s master set him free but the slave was so used to his chains and his pain that when his master allowed him to roam and be free, the slave wandered the land with his “chains” still intact.  All the time he wandered his chains were unlocked and he could have simply taken them off, but being so used to and so in love with his chains and pains he chose to NOT take them off.

The rest of this article is from a spirited writer and addictions specialists, Thomas Lavis.  The original link seems to be dead but was found at http://www.lapismagazine.org/return-of-the-spirit-by-thomas-lavin/

“To be addicted comes from the Latin word addicere, “to give my voice over to.”  Someone who is addicted has no voice.  Linda Leonard wrote a wonderful book called Witness to the Fire: Creativity and the Veil of Addiction in which she talks about the word “addiction”:

What does it mean? Where does it come from? “Ad” means to or toward… [and] “Dicere” means to speak

[Addiction is when I] give my voice to or toward some person, place, thing, or even a process. Process addictions are rigid attitudinal ways of approaching the world.  Addiction need not be limited to alcohol or drugs. I can give myself over—hand over my voice—to anything.

In fact, the original meaning of “addictus” was spiritual, in the sense of someone dedicated to the gods, one whose voice was given over to the Divine (e.g. the 3rd Step of A.A.).  Thus, inherent in the meaning of addiction is the sense of dedication, or bearing witness, to creative energies.

Among the Romans, addiction also signified the making over of goods to another by a legal sale. A slave was even known as an addictus, someone who had no voice, who was a slave to a master. Addiction is the act of giving oneself over to something as one’s master.

Addiction is terrible, it is true, but addiction can be transformed. How can the addict get her or his voice back, so that they can respond [to what they have been called to]?

Within every addiction there is a vocation, a calling (vocation coming from the Latin word meaning to hear or listen and therefore to respond).  Addiction is [far from] the end of the line.

Like the biblical prophet Samuel did in the night, how do I respond if I don’t have a voice? Samuel went to his guru and said, “I think I hear my name called.” And he’s told by the Prophet Eli, “Say ‘Here I am.’” [ref: 1st Samuel, Chapter 3].

Saying yes is part of dealing with addiction. The spiritual part of addiction…getting my voice back…is to be able to say yes to all of life. No one, no thing, is excluded, precluded, left out.

In dealing with addiction, we have to see it as one side. It might be a sad story, maybe generations of sad stories, but we can’t talk about addiction, whether positive or negative, without pain, because people who get their spirit back have to deal with the pain of staying with their own creative spirit.”